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By a female’s hand: Judith, the Jew
| Resumo: | Tyrants and tyrannies were a common theme among the Declamators and Hellenistic and Byzantine school rhetoric. Among the cases dealt with was that of a woman who had gone up to a tyrant’s bedroom to kill him, claiming afterwards the due reward. In Antigone, the autocrat imposes his will as law, in a state where no woman would ever make laws. In Israel, at a fictional time when references to empires that never coexisted are mixed, a respected Jewish noblewoman and widow comes out from the shadow with a plan to execute Holofernes, the Assyrian commander, whose forces are on the verge of destroying Israel. Like her Theban emulous, she does so on her own initiative and constrained by religious piety. Unlike this one, her move obeys the impetus for an existential struggle of his nation, a struggle which is for the freedom, identity and preservation of his people and the religious cult homeland, in the land they had for their own, against the risk of extermination by the ferocity of an impious and oppressive foreign horde. Judith assumes the personal design of tyrannicide. The book celebrates the courage of a woman who is the feminine hand of the God who wrought the liberation of his people. A woman becomes a national hero in a world where men had the preeminence. There is a mixture of qualities generally attributed to men, such as the prudence and courage in councils, with virtues considered as properly female. She is not a participant in armed struggle. She is exalted for her female seduction ability, which leads to deception a man who is the type of the proud and lustful. Finally, there is the modest and temperate life that she kept in widowhood, as an example for his fellow citizens. |
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| Autores principais: | Duarte, Rui Miguel |
| Assunto: | tiranicídio Judite Israel mulher nacionalismo libertação tyrannicide Judith Israel woman nationalism liberation |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Forma Breve |
| Resumo: | Tyrants and tyrannies were a common theme among the Declamators and Hellenistic and Byzantine school rhetoric. Among the cases dealt with was that of a woman who had gone up to a tyrant’s bedroom to kill him, claiming afterwards the due reward. In Antigone, the autocrat imposes his will as law, in a state where no woman would ever make laws. In Israel, at a fictional time when references to empires that never coexisted are mixed, a respected Jewish noblewoman and widow comes out from the shadow with a plan to execute Holofernes, the Assyrian commander, whose forces are on the verge of destroying Israel. Like her Theban emulous, she does so on her own initiative and constrained by religious piety. Unlike this one, her move obeys the impetus for an existential struggle of his nation, a struggle which is for the freedom, identity and preservation of his people and the religious cult homeland, in the land they had for their own, against the risk of extermination by the ferocity of an impious and oppressive foreign horde. Judith assumes the personal design of tyrannicide. The book celebrates the courage of a woman who is the feminine hand of the God who wrought the liberation of his people. A woman becomes a national hero in a world where men had the preeminence. There is a mixture of qualities generally attributed to men, such as the prudence and courage in councils, with virtues considered as properly female. She is not a participant in armed struggle. She is exalted for her female seduction ability, which leads to deception a man who is the type of the proud and lustful. Finally, there is the modest and temperate life that she kept in widowhood, as an example for his fellow citizens. |
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